Gee, I wonder why the LAPD is asking a judge to temporarily suspend the court order forbidding them from using force against the press?
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Ahead of this Saturday’s No Kings protests, the Los Angeles Police Department has filed an emergency motion asking a judge to lift an injunction that restricts the use of force against the press.

The injunction creates “undefined and operationally impracticable standards that expose the city and its officers to contempt for good-faith actions taken to protect the public,” according to lawyers for the city, including City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto, and the police department.

#LosAngeles #ACAB #FirstAmendment #LAPD #UseOfForce #LosAngelesPoliceDepartment #Protests #Press #FreedomOfThePress #FirstAmendment

https://laist.com/news/politics/lapd-use-of-force-against-press-no-kings-protests

But Democratic lawmakers, #CivilRights watchdogs & fmr officials have expressed concern that #ICE now has a green light not only to monitor immigrant communities, but also to carry out broad #surveillance of Americans exercising their #FirstAmendment right to oppose government action.

#Trump #law #privacy #immigration #tech#SurveillanceState#MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny#NoKings

“It’s sad, but I’m also really proud of the #PressCorps that we stuck together,” said Nancy Youssef, a reporter for #TheAtlantic who has had a desk at the #Pentagon since 2007. She took a map of the Middle East out to her car.

It is unclear what practical impact the new rules will have, though news organizations vowed they’d continue robust coverage of the #military no matter the vantage point.

#Trump #law#Constitution#FirstAmendment#FreePress #journalism#FourthEstate #autocracy #tyranny

Many of the reporters waited to leave together at a 4PM deadline set by the #Defense Dept to get out of the building. As the hour approached, boxes of documents lined a #Pentagon corridor & reporters carried chairs, a copying machine, books & old photos to the parking lot from suddenly abandoned workspaces. Shortly after 4, about 40 to 50 #journalists left together after handing in badges.

#Trump #law#US#Constitution#FirstAmendment#FreePress #journalism#FourthEstate #democracy #fascism

News outlets were nearly unanimous in rejecting new rules imposed by #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth that would leave #journalists vulnerable to expulsion if they sought to report on information — classified or otherwise — that had not been approved by #Hegseth for release.

#Trump #law#US#Constitution#FirstAmendment#FreePress #journalism#FourthEstate #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny

Dozens of #reporters turned in access badges & exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the #US #military further from the seat of its #power.

#Trump #law#US#Constitution#FirstAmendment#FreePress #journalism#FourthEstate #democracy #authoritarianism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-access-hegseth-trump-restrictions-5d9c2a63e4e03b91fc1546bb09ffbf12?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-15-Breaking+News

The group ICE Sighting-Chicagoland has been increasingly used in the last 5 weeks of Trump’s intense #deportation campaign to warn neighbors that #FederalAgents are nearby.

#law#FirstAmendment #immigration#FuckMarkZuckerberg#FuckMeta#WhiteSupremacy #technocracy #plutocracy #fascism
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/14/facebook-suspends-popular-ice-sightings-group-at-trump-administrations-request

“It’s sad, but I’m also really proud of the #PressCorps that we stuck together,” said Nancy Youssef, a reporter for #TheAtlantic who has had a desk at the #Pentagon since 2007. She took a map of the Middle East out to her car.

It is unclear what practical impact the new rules will have, though news organizations vowed they’d continue robust coverage of the #military no matter the vantage point.

#Trump #law#Constitution#FirstAmendment#FreePress #journalism#FourthEstate #autocracy #tyranny

Many of the reporters waited to leave together at a 4PM deadline set by the #Defense Dept to get out of the building. As the hour approached, boxes of documents lined a #Pentagon corridor & reporters carried chairs, a copying machine, books & old photos to the parking lot from suddenly abandoned workspaces. Shortly after 4, about 40 to 50 #journalists left together after handing in badges.

#Trump #law#US#Constitution#FirstAmendment#FreePress #journalism#FourthEstate #democracy #fascism

News outlets were nearly unanimous in rejecting new rules imposed by #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth that would leave #journalists vulnerable to expulsion if they sought to report on information — classified or otherwise — that had not been approved by #Hegseth for release.

#Trump #law#US#Constitution#FirstAmendment#FreePress #journalism#FourthEstate #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny

Dozens of #reporters turned in access badges & exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the #US #military further from the seat of its #power.

#Trump #law#US#Constitution#FirstAmendment#FreePress #journalism#FourthEstate #democracy #authoritarianism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-access-hegseth-trump-restrictions-5d9c2a63e4e03b91fc1546bb09ffbf12?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-15-Breaking+News

The group ICE Sighting-Chicagoland has been increasingly used in the last 5 weeks of Trump’s intense #deportation campaign to warn neighbors that #FederalAgents are nearby.

#law#FirstAmendment #immigration#FuckMarkZuckerberg#FuckMeta#WhiteSupremacy #technocracy #plutocracy #fascism
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/14/facebook-suspends-popular-ice-sightings-group-at-trump-administrations-request